title: Gender difference in event related potentials to masked emotional stimuli in the oddball task.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We investigated gender differences in event-related potential (ERP) responses to subliminally presented threat-related stimuli.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-four participants were presented with threat-related and neutral pictures for a very brief period of time (17 ms). To explore gender differences in ERP responses to subliminally presented stimuli, we examined six ERP components [P1, N170, N250, P300, Early Posterior Negativity (EPN) and Late Positive Potential (LPP)].
  
  
  RESULTS
  The result revealed that only female participants showed significant increases in the N170 and the EPN in response to subliminally presented threat-related stimuli compared to neutral stimuli.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results suggest that female participants exhibit greater cortical processing of subliminally presented threat-related stimuli than male participants.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Emotion and Cognition Research Laboratory, Goyang, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Eun Young
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seung-Hwan
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Gewnhi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Sangrae
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Imyel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jeong-Ho
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Chae
authors.forename: Hyun Taek
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Kim
keywords: EPN; Gender; N170; Subliminal stimuli; Threat-related stimuli